Definitions
What is the study and art of effective communication?
Rhetoric
The word _________ refers to recurring types of writing identifiable by distinctive features of structure, style, document design, etc.
Genre
What does the Greek word rhetor mean?
Speaker
What do you call the group of people who are capable of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change?
The audience
Your writing ________ is what you want your audience to think, feel, and do with your message.
Purpose
This term refers to a problem or situation that prompts or invites someone to speak or write.
Exigence
This ancient philosopher wrote On Rhetoric, one of the foundational texts on using rhetoric for persuasion.
Aristotle
What common academic writing genre requires the use of a thesis statement, introduction and conclusion paragraphs, and a list of resources.
An essay
According to Jackson, when you are the rhetor, "you analyze the ________ and craft the message."
Situation
What does the Latin word audire mean?
To hear
What is the primary goal of a comedy movie?
To entertain
Exigences can be more or less ________.
Demanding
The context in which rhetoric occurs is called what?
A rhetorical situation
Genres represent fairly _________ responses to everyday situations.
A rhetor's rhetorical power is checked by kairos and the _________.
Audience
Jackson explains that while speaking, we can track our audience's body language, but when we write, "the reader exists only in our ______."
Imagination
What is the primary goal of a product advertisement?
To persuade a customer to buy it
What is the Greek word that refers to the opportune or fitting moment for an action?
Kairos
According to Haidt, powerful rhetoric can "trigger _______ _______ that help us see things in a new light for from a new perspective.
New intuitions
What do you call a rhetorical situation's limitations, demands, expectations, or no-no's in a genre?
Constraints
In writing theory, what other phrase is often used to describe a writer's perspective, identity, stance, bias, or style.
Their voice
Jackson observes that a problem relating to audience is that sometimes "we have to ______ how a reader might respond."
Guess
What is the primary goal of a piece of academic writing? (Think back to WGMR.)
To inform
Jackson argues that kairos is _________, not chronological.
Psychological
What type of writing (that starts with M) requires us to understand and apply rhetorical theory?
Mindful
In rhetorical theory, genres often emerge in response to a social need for what?
Communication
What identity must you adopt as a rhetor for WRIT 110?
That of an academic or scholar
Who is our discourse community (audience) for WRIT 110?
Academics, scholars, people involved in academia, or simply our class
This type of analysis helps you reconstruct a writer's purpose from their writing.
Rhetorical
What kairotic topic did we spend time in class reading an article, the syllabus, and the student handbook about?
Artificial Intelligence